Week 5

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Week 5 (Oct. 8)
Face-to-face
8:30 – 4:00

Wrap-Up: Goals & Philosophies

Discuss: Calls for Reform

  • Is reform necessary now? why/why not?

  • What reforms are necessary?

  • Do you agree?

  • How do they match with the goals and purposes of education?

  • (start drafting Reflection 2)

More Calls for Reform

Read/Report/Post summaries (jigsaw in-class)
  1. Middle School Students beliefs --A Voice from the Middle: Highlights of the 2007 NASSP/PDK Middle School Student Poll (Principal Leadership, Polk Library print collections
  2. Students Thrive on Cooperation and Problem Solving by Bob Pearlman, Edutopia
  3. The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
  4. Net Day - Students and Teachers Speak Up
  5. Teaching and Learning Conditions Improve High School Reform Efforts
  6. Reimaging School issue Educational Leadership, April 2010 (search for issue at ASCD.org)
  7. Reshaping High Schools issue Educational Leadership, May 2008 (search for issue at ASCD.org)
  8. Teachers of 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession for the 21st Century (Center for Teaching Quality
  9. Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts (NY TImes) and associated report The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School
  10. Daggart, Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce Conference -- Lexile Score discrepancies (doc) (1 page) Find additional information on Lexile scores, help us understand what they are and why they are important.
  11. Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
  12. Goals of a Liberal Education -- College learning for the New Global Century (LEAP)
  13. Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education VALUE http://www.aacu.org/value/
  14. Measuring Up 2008: The National Report Card on Higher Education
  15. Colleges Seek New Ways to Give Students a General Education (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
  16. Improving College Readiness (report, //Education Week// article)
  17. Advocates Push New Definition of Career Readiness (Assoc. for Career and Technical Education Definition, National Assoc. of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium vision statement)
  18. Rising College Enrollments Are Seen in Government's 10-Year Forecast
  19. US: Boost [college] graduate ratio to 60% (article in University World News), Lumina Foundation Goal 2025
  20. Work Force Fueled by Highly Skilled Immigrants. -- NY Times online

Introduce: Standards